Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader version history - 13 versions
Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader by Nodetics
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Latest version
Version 4.9.5
Released 18 Feb 2021 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Bugfix: Twitter parsing crashed the feed parser if the Twitter account was suspended. It also killed the parsing thread.Source code released under
Older versions
Version 4.9.4
Released 23 Jan 2021 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Bugfix: tiny edit to readtrigger element placing
- Bugfix: automatic "mark as read" mode 1 was broken in view mode 5 due to recent changesSource code released under
Version 4.9.1
Released 18 Jan 2021 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Enhancement: modification to Mathjax loader to ensure it can't run on Firefox
- Enhancement: view modes 4 and 5 now fully respect the custom article width setting
- Enhancement: entries in view mode 4 should be now of equal height (title texts don't wrap + image placeholder as a fixed height)
- Enhancement: enclosures are now hidden in view mode 6 to avoid layout bleedingSource code released under
Version 4.8.0
Released 8 Jan 2021 - 1.17 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Feature: Rumble support! See rumble.com - a bit like YouTube. Navigate to channel home page and use "Find Feeds in Current Tab". e.g. https://rumble.com/c/FortniteGame
- Enhancement: entries in OPML that have type "atom" are now also imported (although the OPML spec doesn't define such attribute value) - e.g. Liferea uses this
- Bugfix: Vimeo feed support was broken - fixed embedded videos and incorrect enclosures - unfortunately the feed does not have proper titles for entries or the feed itself in the RSS XML
- Bugfix: if media:content does not have "url" parameter, it won't be included as an enclosureSource code released under
Version 4.7.1
Released 11 Oct 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Bugfix: YouTube search feed was temporarily broken due to YouTube bug workaround fix introduced in 4.6.1 - fixed
- Enhancement: Facebook parser should now parse market place and other groups a bit better
- Enhancement: iframe in viewmode 6 should now automatically adjust to use the full height of the reading paneSource code released under
Version 4.7.0
Released 17 Sep 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Feature: Slack support - you can now use Rules to post matching feed entry title & link directly to a Slack channel using Slack Webhooks
- Feature: Discord support - you can now use Rules to post matching feed entry title & link directly to a Discord channel using Discord Webhooks
- Enhancement: tag names in Tags view are now underlined and cursor is changed to pointer
- Enhancement: Notification timeout setting removed from Feedbro Options because that can't be really controlled by the extension
- Bugfix: fixed locale related buttons in Feedbro Options not to reload the pageSource code released under
Version 4.6.2
Released 12 Sep 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Enhancement: Facebook parser should now work for public pages like /BMW and groups with both the old and new UI
- Bugfix: feeds that contained a mix of entries with content and no content got duplicated content for entries with no content. Fixed.
- Workaround: YouTube seems to have a bug that sometimes generates feed XML entries without published-tag - this caused Feedbro to use current date for the entries. Now if such invalid XML entries are found, they are skipped (until YouTube sends them with the published date).Source code released under
Version 4.6.0
Released 25 Aug 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Feature: Telegram support - Feedbro can now parse Telegram URLs like https://t.me/s/netflix
- Bugfix: Popup "Open Explorer" view didn't show starred articles - fixedSource code released under
Version 4.5.1
Released 29 Jul 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Bugfix: JavaScript Date parsing on Firefox is broken (due to implementation bug in Firefox) and for example pubDate "Mon, 31 Aug 20 13:00:28 +0200" is parsed as Date object Wed Aug 20 2031 14:00:28 GMT+0300. In other words, 2-digit year parsing doesn't work correctly. Created a workaround that manually parses those kind of datestamps correctly.Source code released under
Version 4.5.0
Released 19 Jul 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Enhancement: Twitter plugin doesn't need the pinned tab anymore. However /home and /explore views are no longer supported
- Bugfix: rename feed/folder would hang if the name exceeded 50 chars
- Bugfix: add folder would hang if the name exceeded 35 charsSource code released under
Version 4.4.8
Released 15 Jul 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Bugfix: FB parser - should read /lists/ now
- Bugfix: FB parser - should now retrieve also the latests posts for supported feeds
- Bugfix: FB parser - link parsing/generation should now work properly
- Bugfix: Twitter plugin 403 problem should now recover automatically
- Enhancement: Twitter token update timestamping improved to prevent multiple concurrent pinned tabs
- Enhancement: Twitter & LinkedIn parser - token refresh call changed to GET
- Enhancement: FB parser - Facebook tracking id is now stripped from the article link URL
- Enhancement: Feedbro can now automatically find feeds on YouTube profile pages with URL of type https://www.youtube.com/c/USERNAME/videos
- Enhancement: now feeds that have the oldest item first and newest item last in the XML are also parsed properly
- Enhancement: Twitter plugin can now auto-initialize required cookies by opening a pinned tab for a second even if Twitter has not been accessed after restarting FeedbroSource code released under
Version 4.4.5
Released 7 Jul 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Enhancement: init-background now makes feedbrobg a window attribute to prevent it from going out-of-scope
- Enhancement: added attribute "persistent": true to manifest.json to prevent background page unloading on some browsersSource code released under
Version 4.4.3
Released 3 Jul 2020 - 1.16 MBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Enhancement: Facebook pages of type https://www.facebook.com/groups/12345678987 should be now properly parsed
- Enhancement: Facebook post layout improvements
- Bugfix: delete article icon/button at the bottom of the article didn't work - fixedSource code released under